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Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla
Ó Dónaill, 1977
An Foclóir Beag
Ó Dónaill & Ua Maoileoin, 1991
English–Irish Dictionary
de Bhaldraithe, 1959
Grammar
Pronunciation
corraíl
corráinín
corraíocht
corráiste
corraitheach
corraitheacht
corraitheoir
corrán
corránach
corránaí
corranna
corrbhac
corrbhuaic
corrbhuais
corrchnámhach
corrchoigilt
corrchopóg
corrchothroime
corrdhiabhal
corrdhuine
correasna
corrfhiacail
corrfhocal
corrán, m. (gs. & npl. -áin, gpl. ~). 1. Hook, sickle. ~ bearrtha, pruning-hook. ~ buana, reaping-hook. ~ cnuasaigh, long-handled sickle (for cutting seaweed). ~ círe, serrated hook. Idir speal is ~, between the haymaking and harvesting seasons. Prov: Ná cuir do chorrán i ngort gan iarraidh, don’t interfere in other people’s business. Prov: Is doiligh ~ maith a fháil do dhrochbhuanaí, a bad workman quarrels with his tools. 2. (a) Crescent. ~ gealaí, crescent moon. (b) (In street names) Crescent. 3. ~ géill, angle of jaw; lower jaw-bone, jaw. ~ féasóige, stubbly beard (on jaw). 4. Cost: Lúb is ~, hook and eye. 5. Geog: Hook, point. 6. Lune; lunule. 7. Tex: Twill. Fí chorráin, twilled weave. ~ caol, leathan, fine, coarse, twill. 8. ~ súgáin, throw-crook, rope-twister. 9. Bot:~ lín, corn-spurrey. ~ dearg, wild radish. ~ casta, craipleach, bindweed. S.a. lus.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Níl ~ an chorráin san arbhar, the corn is too short for reaping.
~ chorráin, handful (of grass, etc.) cut with sickle.
~ corráin, speile, grass suitable for cutting with reaping-hook, with scythe.
~ chorráin, dhúbailte, twilled weave, twill.
Is deacair fiacla a chur i gcúl corráin, [’it is hard to put teeth in the back of a reaping-hook’, to reason with a numskull.
~ chorráin, reaping of unripe corn, etc.
Is fada ó d’~ an bhuain chorráin, reaping with a hook ceased a long time ago.
~ scine, corráin, tang of knife, of reaping-hook.
~ an chorráin, spleenwort.
~ corráin, speile, scine, heel of reaping-hook, of scythe, of knife.
~ chorráin, slashing-knife converted from (old) reaping-hook.
Idir ~ is corrán, between the haymaking and the harvesting.
